About his Up + B

[Weltunter]

We have all seen this picture of his Up + B:

But what does he do AFTER the pimin have grabbed the ledge? Does he crawl up on them like a ladder? Does the uppermost pikmin crawl on the platform and pull the others with him?

 

[OhCripe119]

He may just swing himself up to the platform. Not really sure. My question is, does it do any damage, because if not, that leaves only his B> as his only special move that causes the other players pain.

 

[Randomizer]

What if he can grab other players with it and drag them to there doom XD, or maybe just use them as an extra pikmin

 

[Weltunter]

What if he can grab other players with it and drag them to there doom XD

That would be hi-la-ri-ous

Imagine Olimar swings his pikmin-whip at Bowser, the Pikmin grabs him, Olimar swings the hole row over his head and the last Pimin lets go, flying off with Bowser

 

[Itakio]

I think he will just pull the pikmin down for a quick boost. The other options mentioned would be too slow, and I highly doubt they will grab the other players.

 

[ZenJestr]

hopefully the Pikmin get invincibility frames like when players grab on to the edge...otherwise Olimar's recovery is officially crap...

 

[Meta_Sonic64]

I hope it's like Zamus Plasma Whip

 

[TheMirrorTwin]

I would guess that he throws the pikman very quickly to the nearest ledge/platform. Then climbs them quickly like a latter. Then, each pikman climbs after him.

Imagine it, he climbs two pikman, then the last pikman starts climbing, ect.

Although, this means he can only grab ledges/platforms (Pikman can't grab air). As for enemy's, he throws the pikman quickly at them, they form a chain, and he pulls the enemy to the ground. I just don't see how this could be used without a ledge. I mean, you can't climb a falling enemy...

can you?

 

[Meta_Sonic64]

It would be interesting if you could.

 

[TheMirrorTwin]

Look Here

http://wii.com/jp/movies/wii-cm-soft86/

His FS is at the end of the vid. Bloodbath.

After looking at this vid, I think it is safe to say that he needs a ledge to grab onto. Also that he hangs someone like a edge grab by chain.

 

[Baka_Shade]

He may just swing himself up to the platform. Not really sure. My question is, does it do any damage, because if not, that leaves only his B> as his only special move that causes the other players pain.

Well, in his FS update, he's definitely breaking the ball with the upB, so I'd say that means it does damage.

 

[Cranberry Rogue]

I'm pretty sure someone already said this, but I'm thinking that each of them will climb up one by one. If we go by the picture, Olimar would start climbing up first, then once he passed the white one (farthest from the stage's ledge), it too would start climbing, then the red, white, blue, red, and finally, the blue one that is actually supporting all their weight. That way, Olimar, the main character (the one whose life really matters) would get back onto the stage the quickest, while the secondary Pikmin characters would take just a tad longer.

 

[orintemple]

I doubt they would make it really slow, that would just be stupid. Maybe he just flings himself up and lands on the platform. This is such an awkward up-B because it doesn't propel the character upward. It seems like it has to latch to something which I don't understand how that could work. I guess we'll know in 2 weeks.

 

[SuperBowser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ2-JLTET88

That shows his up B in action

I guess it will be similar to link's grapple, and if you press a button, you'll pop up. He also seems to use up B to get the smash ball in today's update so this move is fast and does damage!

The only problem I see with it as a recovery is ledge hogging... but that's something we'll have to find out about when the game is released.

 

[Meta_Sonic64]

Good thing it's confirmed to do damage now.

 

[Mattnumbers]

Also, if you look at this picture you can see that they do damage depending on the pikmin, you can see the white one hurting dedede with poison.

I also think that the yellow effect near mario was from the yellow pikmin.

 

[Droogieb]

Ya in the final smash update today we saw the first (closest to Olimar) White Pikim did poison damage to Dedede

 

[Animal control]

u cant really say yet but i think its going to be like Link/Samus when the beam/chain pull u str8 up

 

[Kabyk-Greenmyst]

the yellow effect near mario is the smash ball breaking, however the dark matter around dedede is probably the white pikmin's poison. good find.

this also shows that pikmin chain does damage with his up-b. in fact, it might even be similar to what they said about ZSS's up-b, that pulls people down, except Olimar's up-b is on a diagonal, where ZSS's whip goes straight up.

 

[TheLastHero]

Maybe his UpB is aimable? Lik Fox/Pikachu/etc, you press UpB then hit a seperate angle fast enough, it goes at a different angle?

Although it's VERY quick, so it could STOP somone edgehogging if you have enough Pikmin since you could grab the ldge before they fall off.

 

[assassinX105]

We have all seen this picture of his Up + B:

But what does he do AFTER the pimin have grabbed the ledge? Does he crawl up on them like a ladder? Does the uppermost pikmin crawl on the platform and pull the others with him?

I've been wondering that alot myself, I guess we'll have to wait and see

 

[mario brawler]

That would be hi-la-ri-ous

Imagine Olimar swings his pikmin-whip at Bowser, the Pikmin grabs him, Olimar swings the hole row over his head and the last Pimin lets go, flying off with Bowser

WOW LMFAO that is one of the funnniest thing's I've heard today

I doubt they would make it really slow, that would just be stupid. Maybe he just flings himself up and lands on the platform. This is such an awkward up-B because it doesn't propel the character upward. It seems like it has to latch to something which I don't understand how that could work. I guess we'll know in 2 weeks.

well Zamus' up B does'nt propel her foward,and neither does ivysaurs,any who the move does do damage and I think it'll be really hard to edge guard it judging from how fast it comes out,AND it most likely has the BEST range in the game as a recovery,as for how he get's up I think the pikman starting from the top will climb up at really fast speed's until finaly olimar make's it back up

 

[KingDaniel]

Yeah, it has a lot of range on it. I don't think it can grab chars with it...but you can probably swing with it and pull yourself up, like the hookshot.

 

[JawaJedi]

Y'know, I posted an idea about Olimar possibly using Pikmin like a chain for recovery on the Nintendo forums, and lots of people said it would suck. And now it's in the game, and everyone's liking it. o.o